Recipe Comments

[peavey]

Does anyone make fruitcake? And is it time to start? I've never done it before, but I love good homemade fruitcake.

My mom used to make it but she's older now and doesn't do that sort of thing any more. I miss having it and that store bought stuff is worthy of all the fruitcake jokes I've ever heard.

[lightitup]

I have never made it but I will try to find a good recipe and find out when you start. I know someone that makes it every year and it is pretty good. Maybe she will give me her recipe.

[peavey]

Thank you!

My mom used to make it every year, but she's old now, and I asked her about it and she couldn't remember. I can't seem to find her recipe, either.

[lightitup]

Peavey I found this fruitcake recipe that takes from the beginning of November to Christmas to make.
http://www.christmas-baking.com/christmas_cake.html

[Christmas]

What is your "New" favorite Christmas Cookie? Don't tell us about the old favorite that your mom used to make. What is the newest kind of Christmas Cookie that wowed your socks off!?

[lightitup]

I don't know about anyone else but my favorite has always been the old fashioned sugar cookie with lots of colors in them. yummmmyy

[Ervserver]

Candy cane cookies :smile:

[DoubleA]

Wow that sounds so cool, Im going to have to try this out this season, thank you!

[number4son]

Brilliant idea for the rack!

[Ervserver]

Bite them pretzels apart just right and you can make an 8 pointer !

[number4son]

Oh, you don't bite them, do you? I'm not wanting any cookies from your house next year.

[Ervserver]

sheesh guess I'll havta eat em all :eek:

[number4son]

again 8)

[Ervserver]

yup...Erv shore do love his Christmas cookies

[number4son]

Kroger was selling their big box of Christmas sugar cookies for about $1.25, so I picked one up this morning.

[Ervserver]

Does anyone make fruitcake? And is it time to start? I've never done it before, but I love good homemade fruitcake.

My mom used to make it but she's older now and doesn't do that sort of thing any more. I miss having it and that store bought stuff is worthy of all the fruitcake jokes I've ever heard.


My grandmother makes them in the summer for Christmas time

[number4son]

Well, I saw fruitcakes on sale at Dollar General for 25¢! Not bad for a doorstop or paperweight.

[Ervserver]

what a kawinkydink, just happened to make eggnog bread last night though from a mix Target had on closeout

[Auntie Mistletoe]

:D Honestly, the simpler the better for my baking schedule. Then I'd have more time to play on the computer. Of course, I have many recipes, but haven't done any baking for awhile. I can't eat sweets anymore, but I have promised to bake some goodies for my husband to enjoy.

:smile: Last time I made him a Father's Day Cake and I made a Birthday Brownie -Pudding cake, but I went the simple way and grabbed a mix from the shelf. He finished those cakes off in three or four days.

[Ervserver]

both sound very yum, think I'll make the peachy first :)

[Auntie Mistletoe]

:-D For something that tastes sooooo good, the Upside Down Cake is really easy to make. It might sound like work, but I find it one of the simplest of desserts. Enjoy!

[Auntie Mistletoe]

:-) That sounds quick and easy and look - sounds like eggnog cake!

[Ervserver]

mmmm eggnog :)

[Christy Carol]

My step-mom used to make this when I was a kid but she never dipped it in chocolate!


We just called it Jello cake or Jello punch cake, I cant remember.

[Ervserver]

We usually have checkerboard cake for Easter but this sounds yummy...printing out the recipe now

[Ervserver]

only one....I'd have that gone by the time I got to my car

[lightitup]

It is jello poke cake and with cool whip on top it is yummy too.

[lightitup]

the newest one that wowed me was the new one the girl scouts sell. Cinnamon shortbread or something like that. Great with coffee.

[Ervserver]

rats I missed that one, Kim brought home a few boxes of kinds I don't really care for. She may have done this thinking she would have them all to herself. Boy did I show her :?

[Ervserver]

Anything with Cool Whip works for me

[Christy Carol]

I can do that! Thanks Erv, that will be perfect for the 4th!!!

[Ervserver]

8)

[Ervserver]

Once again this was a big hit here, I could have made a half dozen and they would not have gone to waste

[lightitup]

I am gonna try your cheesecake brownies for our pot luck tonight but I am going to drizzle carmel over the top. Lets see how it turns out tonight. If I have leftovers I will get fat. Oh well let there be leftovers.

[number4son]

You guys eat like kings!

[Ervserver]

if only they made cheesecake and eggnog flavored cereals

[number4son]

I'm surprised Hardees doesn't make it. They could care less about nutrition.

[Ervserver]

seems like everytime I see a Hardees commercial they have invented a larger burger

[ChristmasFanatic]

Not a new cookie by any means, but rather, it's new to my Christmas enjoyment. Thumbprint cookies with strawberry jam. :D Being diabetic, I'm not supposed to really partake of many, but those and Kolachkies do test my willpower. ;)

[number4son]

You could get a job writing adverts. I had no idea what you were going to say.

[Ervserver]

oh I love those! some of them have a great buttery flavor

[Christy Carol]

Candy cane cookies :smile:

Recipe, please!!!!

[Christy Carol]

printing it out...


thank you! :-D

[Ervserver]

enjoy...dem are nummy :-)

[Ervserver]

Gotta have eye grabbing subjects so people will read em :-)

[Ervserver]

of course I'll likely add a dollop of Cool Whip

[number4son]

That sounds very tasty. I had fried cheesecake last night. Wasn't as impressed as I thought I'd be.

[Ervserver]

umm..so they take a slice of cheesecake and fry it in batter?

[number4son]

These were more like cheesecake balls rolled in nuts, I thought.

[number4son]

You know that if you kill me you don't get my Christmas decorations, right?

[Ervserver]

huh...you mean Christy was kidding me ???

[Ervserver]

nuts!

[Ervserver]

mmmm yummy

[hollybow]

Caramel/cream cheese Chocolate/mint frosting for me please I ´ll try the others later... sounds yummy

[Snowflake]

this sounds good, something finally for left over candy canes :grin:

[Ervserver]

you mean those leftover from Christmas 05 :smile:

[Ervserver]

I can't read it....LIGHT my Firefox is actin up

[Christy Carol]

No, my text came across as green. I fixed it

[Christy Carol]

I did see a low fat version today. Just use fat free pudding mix and whipped topping. Doubt you will taste any difference at all. I'll see if I can get the WW points value for it.

[number4son]

That looks like something even a kitchen idiot could make. Hence, I shall give it a try.

[Ervserver]

mmm yummy

[Snowflake]

What kind of fruit cake recipe are you looking for. Dark, White etc. the kind with the 'candied Fruits' or dried etc?

[Ervserver]

one that tastes good :c5:

[ChristmasFanatic]

Seven layer cookies

1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 cup shredded coconut
6 oz butterscotch chips
6 oz chocolate chips
1 can sweet condensed milk
1 cup walnuts



Melt 1 stick butter in a jelly roll pan. Spread in pan (in layers) - 1 cup of graham cracker crumbs, 1 cup of shredded coconut, 6 oz of butterscotch chips and 6 oz. of chocolate chips. Drizzle one can of sweet condensed milk on top. Add 1 cup of chopped walnuts on top. Bake at 350 degress for 30 minutes. Remove and let cool and then cut into squares.

I had one of these about a year ago.....they are indeed, yummy! Very sweet and rich, so about one small bar will do you....or two.....or was it, three? http://www.postsmile.com/img/winter/36.gif

[Ervserver]

I eat a few then I keep going back to make sure I cut bars straight, trim off the edge a bit.

:c2:

[number4son]

All but the coconut sounds great. Seven layers might cause me to add one layer on to my outer shell, but it will be worth it.

[Goldie]

I have had these before and they are so good!! Very rich but what's wrong with that??

[Keepsake]

Those sound yummy!:c35:

[Ervserver]

rich foods are best, concentrated goodness in every bite.


I have had these before and they are so good!! Very rich but what's wrong with that??

[Ervserver]

buy a premade crust, how quick and yummy

[DoubleA]

Food Networks Semi-Homemade with Erv! :c36: has a better jingle to it.

[Ervserver]

book coming soon


:c50:

[Ervserver]

OK, I'll try it...if you say its yummy

[commomom]

I really have to stop reading these recipe threads all they do is make me very hungry.:g46:

[Ervserver]

you have some time before the next newsletter to do some baking

:c35:

I really have to stop reading these recipe threads all they do is make me very hungry.:g46:

[commomom]

I know I already have to make a loaf of French bread for my hubby. I may make some cinnamon rolls too.

[Ervserver]

Cinnys are wonderful this time of year!

:eek:

[commomom]

I never made the cinnamon rolls but I did make the French bread. I'll have to post the recipe for my mother-in-law's coffee ring. Very yummy.

[Snowflake]

Oh Twinkle, didn't you post that on the XP last year. I remember it sounded so good. We lost a lot of good recipes when XP went down, and i didn't print a lot of them off, thinking I could always do it later.

[Ervserver]

I'll take a fresh baked loaf of bread anyday

:g60:

I never made the cinnamon rolls but I did make the French bread. I'll have to post the recipe for my mother-in-law's coffee ring. Very yummy.

[number4son]

Absolutely! I'm up at 12:45am because I ate some raisin bread that might have been past its sell by date, but I'd still enjoy fresh baked bread right now. My neighbors made it all the time when I was growing up. I remember a time when one of their dogs ate a loaf off the piano that was still rising. Dog was not in very good shape after that.

[commomom]

I just love the smell of freshly baked bread. It always smells so good.mmmmmmmm.

[Ervserver]

I've tried various candles with the claimed scent of 'freshly baked bread" but they aren't even close. Which is unfortunate

[commomom]

Hi everyone, I made this thread to post any comments about any new or current recipes should be made here to make it easier for members to search for recipes they want to try. Thanks.

[Ervserver]

Now thru December I do lots of baking, one of the best tools I can recommend for your kitchen is silicone baking mats. I love them

[Snowflake]

I have been intending to get one of those silcone mats for my cookie sheet. They would be great.

Raisin Bread sliced thick makes really good French Toast. A couple of years ago Walmart made their own or trucked the dough in, anyway they would make it in a whole loaf or sliced. I always loved the whole loaf, which I could slice at the thickness i want and it made the best French Toast. But now our Walmart doesnt do it anymore, they have a good raisin bread, also Cranberry bread and an apple bread, but thinly sliced.

I haven't made homemade bread or 'stickey buns' as they call them today in many years. I should make some. I supose my recipe is probably outdated for all the new ingredients. When i use to make it, we had to sift the flour etc.

[lightitup]

Okay I didn't know where to put this but I think it will fit right here.
When I bake I always break a cookie or a brownie. Like today we had a bowl full of cookies that didn't make the tins. We mixed them all up and poured a cup of eggnog on them. Beat it with a mixer and poured them in a small baking sheet with sides and baked them. We had instant spiced eggnog bars for the tins. Sadly only a few made there way into the tins cause the rest were eaten up by friends and hubby.:c5:

[number4son]

Did that idea just come to you or have you tried it before. Seems that the already baked cookies would become burned the 2nd time around.